TelePolis reports on the cruel attack on foreigners in Iraq ¹ and talks about the power of images in asymmetric conflicts, lack of “courage civile”, the mob loosing control... Such is the Dark Side within humanity when we loose it. Decades of supression, violence, hope, frustration, more bombs, insecurity, kidnappings, and fear... As TelePolis puts it: “Murder, War, Violence, and Dispair.” And now it comes to this. I’m not sure what to recommend. How do we build civil society? Nation building such that we’d gladly be part of that nation? Something about law and order, police, trust, getting along, integrating forces...
Here in Switzerland we recently had a case of three young nazi who killed one of their own because he had “talked” about their secret society. Lured him to an old ruin, crushed his skull and brain with an iron tube, and dumped him into a lake. I think the instigator got life-long, the others sixteen years, but I can’t remember for certain.
Anyway... The TelePolis article ends with some references to Afghanistan and new unrest in Usbekistan, where the government violates human rights en masse, but is supported by the US, because they fight Al-Qaida, but muslim organizations claim that *any* muslim activists can be detained and tortured in Usbekistan... There’s another article on Afghanistan, in fact. ² Political unrest, how to vote, Taliban in control of 20% of the country, poppy seeds being the only product that actually gets you some money, representation of women, ...
Sigh. 🙁
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